This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or ‘customers’), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro’s case book, comprising the doctor’s jottings on patients he saw in the course of his private practice–patients drawn from a great variety of social strata–offers an extraordinary window into the sub...
قائمة المحتويات
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Managing Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London
1. Customers, Patrons, and Their Mad-Doctor
2. A Rare Resource: Jo...
عن المؤلف
Jonathan Andrews is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University. His publications include The History of Bethlem (1997) and ‘They’re in the Trad...